TFG
If you haven’t heard the song “Love the way you lie”, by Rihanna (featuring Eminem), here’s a link). What follows then might make a little more sense, I hope…
You came in 1996
Won the Double ‘98
At first; they all asked “Arsene who?”
You didn’t give them long to wait
Built a winning team
Every Gooner’s dream
Double won again
Title at the Lane
Inscribed Arsenal in the history books
When we didn’t lose a game
The project’s failed, but you just don’t learn
Created an empire, now we stand and watch it burn
Rely on youth and refuse to buy
So we can’t take any more spin
We hate the way you lie
We hate the way you lie…. oooohhh
Hate the way you lie….
You moved us to a new stadium
We said goodbye to Highbury
We were told it would help us compete
Write new pages of history
But it’s been seven years
And in all that time
The way we’ve thrown trophies away
Has been a crime
And whilst you’re still in denial
All we’re left with is the pain
The project’s failed, but you just don’t learn
Created an empire, now we stand and watch it burn
Rely on youth and refuse to buy
So we can’t take any more spin
We hate the way you lie
We hate the way you lie…. oooohhh
Hate the way you lie…. oooohhh
So maybe I’m ungrateful
Says the defiant A-K-B
But the evidence is mounting
Gotta change your philosophy
I remember Bergkamp, Ljungberg, Vieira, Parlour, Henry
Legends loved were David, Nigel, Tony, Bobby, Martin, Lee
Each one a warrior, fought to make a legacy
Playing without doubt the best football that you will ever see
Sublime defence attached to stunning creativity
Now how can you tell us that Diaby, Eboue, Squillaci
Are your best ever squad?
There ain’t no sense, just incredulity
The pattern is the same, and it is causing Gooner misery
Stop deluding yourself, you fooled nobody at Wembley
It happened many years ago, when you were boss at Monaco
You started to obsess with youth, eventually you had to go
So how did it all come to this? Please explain, ‘cause I just don’t know
But another season like the last will hit me like a body blow
You’re destroying what you helped to build
And now it’s just “The Arsene Show”.
Close down the laboratory, we can’t keep on going with the flow
The talent keeps on leaving, while you promise better tomorrow
Let’s start living for the here and now or sink without a trace below
Or this chapter in our story will be coming to a bitter close
So now it’s the time of reckoning, this club was here before you came
You did great things, now it’s f***ed up; please think it though ‘cause it’s a shame
Time to clear out all the dead wood, teach the basics of the game
Buy quality, experience, or ‘fess up now and take the blame
The project’s failed, but you just don’t learn
Created an empire, now we stand and watch it burn
Rely on youth and refuse to buy
So we can’t take any more spin
We hate the way you lie
We hate the way you lie…. oooohhh
You lie….. hate the way you lie….
